Epistemology After Protagoras
Title | Epistemology After Protagoras PDF eBook |
Author | Mi-Kyoung Lee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | 9780191602924 |
Relativism was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Protagoras is famous for his claim that 'man is the measure of all things'. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines this and the work of Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus.
Epistemology After Protagoras
Title | Epistemology After Protagoras PDF eBook |
Author | Mi-Kyoung Lee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199262229 |
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Epistemology After Protagoras
Title | Epistemology After Protagoras PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | Aristotle |
ISBN | 9780199262229 |
Library of Congress Summary "Relativism was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras in the fifth century BC. Protagoras is famous for his claim that 'man is the measure of all things'. Mi-Kyoung Lee examines this and the work of Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus"--Provided by publisher.
Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism
Title | Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | Ugo Zilioli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317074467 |
Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically sophisticated examination of what is, in philosophical terms, the most interesting feature of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism. Zilioli relates Protagoras' relativism with modern forms of relativism, in particular the 'robust relativism' of Joseph Margolis, gives an integrated account both of the perceptual relativism examined in Plato's Theaetetus and the ethical or social relativism presented in the first part of Plato's Protagoras and offers an integrated and positive analysis of Protagoras' thought, rather than focusing on ancient criticisms and responses to his thought. This is a deeply scholarly work which brings much argument to bear to the claim that Protagoras was and remains Plato's subtlest philosophical enemy.
Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
Title | Studies in Early Greek Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jaap Mansfeld |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 2018-09-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004382062 |
Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. General issues and particular problems of interpretation are tackled by a scrutiny of the sources, and of traditions of reception both ancient and modern.
Protagoras
Title | Protagoras PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Silvermintz |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 2015-12-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472512626 |
The presocratic philosopher Protagoras of Abdera (490–420 BC), founder of the sophistic movement, was famously agnostic towards the existence and nature of the gods, and was the proponent of the doctrine that 'man is the measure of all things'. Still relevant to contemporary society, Protagoras is in many ways a precursor of the postmodern movement. In the brief fragments that survive, he lays the foundation for relativism, agnosticism, the significance of rhetoric, a pedagogy for critical thinking and a conception of the human being as a social construction. This accessible introductory survey by Daniel Silvermintz covers Protagoras' life, ideas and lasting legacy. Each chapter interprets one of the surviving fragments and draws connections with related ideas forwarded by other sophists, showing its relevance to an area of knowledge: epistemology, ethics, education and sociology.
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
Title | Essays on Plato’s Epistemology PDF eBook |
Author | Franco Trabattoni |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9462700591 |
An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.